Deputies: Convicted sex offender tried to lure child to car

Jesse Brown spent 235 months in prison

A convicted sex offender who failed to register when he moved to Orange County last month has been charged with trying to lure or entice a child to his car.

Jesse Austin Brown, 59, who moved to Winter Garden last month from South Dakota, was picked up in September.

Investigators said a witness wrote down Brown's license tag number as belonging to a man who attempted to lure children to his car in Winter Garden.

Brown spent 235 months in federal prison for sexual abuse of a child in South Dakota. He arrived in Florida earlier this month but did not register as a sex offender within three days as required law, prosecutors said.

Authorities charged Brown with failing to register in September, but now he's facing a felony charge of child luring.